Five'll get you ten in Washington
Donate like your neighbors and your contribution will DOUBLE!
There is solid support for domestic partnerships in the general Washington population, but our support among likely voters in this off-year election is razor thin at 51%. So, we're working to motivate our supporters to actually vote. That takes money.
With ballots hitting mailboxes October 16th, our campaign season is only 6 weeks long and hasn't given us the lead time necessary to raise adequate funds before a major donor ban goes into effect on Oct 12. After that date, no donor can contribute more than $5,000 cumulative.
Our opposition hasn't been doing any serious fundraising in the past several weeks, confounding our ability to show our need to our supporters. We suspect that the opposition can do this and are doing this deliberately because they have a big benefactor who will dump big money and/or services into the state for them around the time the major donor ban goes into effect. This of course would undercut our ability to match their effort later in the campaign. The opposition campaign includes local affiliates of Focus on the Family, Family Research Council and Alliance Defense Fund. Here's how you can double your pleasure, double our fun: a set of donors from Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Employees at Microsoft (GLEAM), acting as individuals, have pledged to match each dollar of your donations over the next week, up to $10,000. Please help make sure all Washington families are equal: Donate to the Approve Referendum 71 campaign. Thank you from one of the 12,202 straight senior citizen and LGBT domestic partners in Washington! We can win this! p.s. If the radical-right manages to roll back DPs in WA, this may embolden them to engage on a new front: DPs and CUs in semi-equality-tolerant states like Oregon and Nevada. Yuck.
Five'll get you ten in Washington | 0 comments (0 topical)
|
Recommended Diaries
Recent Diaries
My vote will be counted. Will yours?
By Lurleen (1 comments)
People of faith speaking out for Approve Referendum 71
By Lurleen (0 comments)
Public Option = Holy Roman Empire
By eridani (2 comments)
What Kinds of Choices Do We Need For Our Health Care?
By eridani (0 comments)
A message to America from insurance company CEOs
By eridani (0 comments)
Let's quit the killing and bring our troops home NOW
By leduc (0 comments)
The Referendum 71 campaign money situation
By Lurleen (2 comments)
We CAN fix it!
By moirao (0 comments)
Final Stretch --Rose Ehart in UP City Council Race
By Israelhand (0 comments)
Protect Marriage Washington posts an ad
By Lurleen (0 comments)
Five'll get you ten in Washington
By Lurleen (0 comments)
The White Knight of Eymonia
By Richard Champlin (0 comments) Related Links++ Donate + razor thin + money + Our opposition + suspect + GLEAM + 12,202 + Lurleen's Diary Washblog RSS FeedsPolitical ContactsLocal MediaCoastal/Grays HarborAberdeen Daily World Chinook Observer Montesano Vidette Pacific County Press Willapa Harbor Herald KXRO 1320 AM Olympic Peninsula Peninsula Daily News Bremerton Sun Bremerton Chronicle Gig Harbor Gateway Port Orchard Independent Port Townsend Leader North Kitsap Herald Squim Gazette Central Kitsap Reporter Business Examiner KONP 1450 AM Sound and Islands Anacortes American Bainbridge Review Voice Of Bainbridge San Juan Journal The Islands' Sounder Whidbey NewsTimes South Whidbey Record Stanwood/Camano News Vashon Beachcomber Voice Of Vashon KLKI 1340 AM North Puget Sound Bellingham Herald The Northern Light Everett Herald Skagit Valley Herald Lynden Tribune The Enterprise Snohomish County Tribune Snohomish County Business Journal The Monroe Monitor The Edmonds Beacon KGMI 790 AM KELA 1470 AM KRKO 1380 AM Central Puget Sound King County Journal Issaquah Press Mukilteo Beacon Voice of the Valley Federal Way Mirror Bothell/Kenmore Reporter Kirkland courier Mercer Island Reporter Woodinville Weekly Greater Seattle Seattle PI Seattle Times KOMO TV 4 KIRO TV 7 KING 5 TV KTBW TV 22 KCTS 9 UW Daily The Stranger Seattle Weekly Capitol Hill Times Madison Park Times Seattle Journal of Commerce NW Asian Weekly West Seattle Herald North Seattle Herald-Outlook South Seattle Star Magnolia News Beacon Hill News KIRO 710 AM KOMO AM 1000 KEXP 90.3 FM KUOW 94.9 FM KVI 570 AM South Puget Sound The Columbian Longview Daily News Nisqually Valley News Lewis County News The Reflector Eatonville Dispatch Tacoma News Tribune Tacoma Weekly Puyallup Herald Enumclaw Courier-Herald The Olympian KAOS 89.3 FM KCPQ 13 KOWA FM 106.5 UPN 11 Cascade/Okanogan Ellensburg Daily Record Levenworth Echo Cle Elum Tribune Snoqualmie Valley Record Methow Valley News Lake Chelan Mirror Omak chronicle The Newport Miner Spokane/Palouse The Spokesman-Review KREM 2 TV Spokane KXLY News 4 Spokane KHQ 6 Spokane KSPS Spokane Statesman-Examiner Othello Outlook Cheney Free Press Camas PostRecord The South County sun White Salmon Enterprise Palouse Boomerang Columbia Basin Herald Grand Coulee Star Walla Walla Union-Bulletin Yakima Herald-Republic KIMA 29 Yakima KAPP TV 35 Yakima KYVE Yakima Wenatchee World Tri-City Herald TVEW TV 42 Tri-cities KTNW Richland KEPR 19 Pasco Daily Sun News Prosser Record-Bulletin KTCR 1340 AM KWSU Pullman Moscow-Pullman Daily News |